Wishlist

Wishlist

[Nicolas Janin]

Hello !

First, I would like to thank all the developpers at Redhat for having 
brought us Source Nav. It's such a wonderful tool !! I use it constantly at 
work.

IMHO, the only weak part of this program is the editor, which could be 
greatly improved. The best thing for me would be to have Nedit integrated in 
Source Nav. Nedit is a very powerful, yet very user friendly editor, and I 
think its interface would fit nicely with Source Nav (they have lots of 
similarities, besides using the same X libraries).

My other (less important) wish would be a name completion facility while 
programming, similar to Visual C++ facility: while programming, the editor 
would be able, by pressing a combination of keys, to give a list of symbols 
that completes what you are typing. If it's a class or a struct, and you 
type a "." or "->", a menu appears with the list of the fields and methods 
of the class you can choose from.

One other wish concerns the integration of a config. management program. It 
would be nice to be able to insert a command line for check in/check 
out,etc, if one doesn't use the programs listed (CVS, SCCS, Clearcase). We 
actually developped an upper layer over Clearcase here, with specific 
comnmands.

Lastly, I report a small bug in the Symbol browser that you have probably 
seen already : the fields bar on top of the list is not correctly refreshed 
at first. One has to move one of the column limits to refresh it.

Many thanks again for what you've done so far, and keep up the good job !

Nicolas

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Re: Wishlist

[Ian Roxborough]

Hi,

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:53:14 +0100 "Nicolas Janin" <nicolas_janin@hotmail.com> wrote: 
> My other (less important) wish would be a name completion facility while 
> programming, similar to Visual C++ facility: while programming, the editor 
> would be able, by pressing a combination of keys, to give a list of symbols 
> that completes what you are typing. If it's a class or a struct, and you 
> type a "." or "->", a menu appears with the list of the fields and methods 
> of the class you can choose from.

There is a sourcenav plugin for symbol completion:
 http://oimanager.de/sn.htm#Text%20completion

> One other wish concerns the integration of a config. management program. It 
> would be nice to be able to insert a command line for check in/check 
> out,etc, if one doesn't use the programs listed (CVS, SCCS, Clearcase). We 
> actually developped an upper layer over Clearcase here, with specific 
> comnmands.

Currently this is possible, if in a limited way.  The relavent manual
pages are located here:
http://sources.redhat.com/sourcenav/online-docs/progref/versctrl.html#pgfId-996752

> Lastly, I report a small bug in the Symbol browser that you have probably 
> seen already : the fields bar on top of the list is not correctly refreshed 
> at first. One has to move one of the column limits to refresh it.

I believe this bug has been fix in the CVS version.
The CVS version is a little broken in some regards and there
is little hope of building it on Windows for a while atleast.

Ian.

Re: Wishlist

[Ian Roxborough]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 03:07:03 -0600  "Davies, Mike" <MDavies@uk.waukbearing.com> wrote:
>
> 
> > I believe this bug has been fix in the CVS version.
> > The CVS version is a little broken in some regards 
> > and there is little hope of building it on Windows 
> > for a while atleast.
> 
> I tried to build the released version on Windows a while back.  Although it
> compiled OK it did not give the same executable as the released binary and
> it also seemed less reliable.   Is a theoretical set of build instructions
> available for this platform ?

There is, but I can't remember where they are keep.
Your best bet is to search the SN mailing list archive.

>   Can we use the latest version of the windows
> hosted TCL/TK from the scriptics site (8.3.4.2),  or must we compile the one
> that comes with SN?

Well, I'm not sure anymore.  It used to be that you had to use the
Tcl/Tk version that comes with SN, but I've done a lot of work
to remove those depandencies.  They may be a couple of problems
with using the activestate/scriptics versions, so I would using
the SN version.  If you try other version of Tcl/Tk, let me 
know how you get on.

>  What actually are the problems with compiling under
> Windows,  is it just a broken build or are there fundamental issues that
> must be addressed ?

They are a few fundamental issues, but it is really
a matter of having a week or two to spend on the build.
The crux of the matter is we are changing the build
from using MS-VC++ to gcc, currently it's not working
with either.


Ian.

RE: Wishlist

[Davies, Mike]

> I believe this bug has been fix in the CVS version.
> The CVS version is a little broken in some regards 
> and there is little hope of building it on Windows 
> for a while atleast.

I tried to build the released version on Windows a while back.  Although it
compiled OK it did not give the same executable as the released binary and
it also seemed less reliable.   Is a theoretical set of build instructions
available for this platform ?   Can we use the latest version of the windows
hosted TCL/TK from the scriptics site (8.3.4.2),  or must we compile the one
that comes with SN?  What actually are the problems with compiling under
Windows,  is it just a broken build or are there fundamental issues that
must be addressed ?

Mike Davies